- Ethanol, Isopropanol, and n-propanol are effective disinfectants used in hand sanitizers. - Methanol is poisonous and should never be used in hand sanitizers. containing the double bond as the parent chain, numbering the chain to give the double bond the lowest possible locant, and then naming and locating the substituents.
Alcohol-based hand sanitizers can contain _______. 1. Ethanol 2. Isopropanol 3. n-propanol 4. methanol
Asked in GPSC Prelims CSP 2 2021 · Topic: Alcohol (Industrial Synthesis and Applications of Alcohols (Ethanol production, methanol toxicity, solvents, fuels))
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